Graduate Resident Fellows (GRFs) are PhD students who live in Alice Cook House and who support the House Professor-Dean, Assistant Dean, and House Fellows in creating a positive, vibrant and academically engaging living-learning community. GRFs serve as mentors and role models to undergraduate residents and they serve in leadership roles for academic enrichment by promoting a variety of programs and activities.
![A Black woman with long hair smiles in front of a neutral background](/sites/alicecookhouse/files/styles/people_79_x_79_/public/2022-09/grf_beulah_agyemang-barimah.jpg?itok=MPa-iyyF)
Beulah is a PhD candidate in Computational Biology. Who knew we could even compute biology these days? Well, Beulah is doing it and she claims to like it.
![picture of Alikhan in blue lab coat](/sites/alicecookhouse/files/styles/people_79_x_79_/public/2023-07/1.jpg?itok=xiM9SBB_)
Alikhan is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering. His research aims to create a
biological replacement for damaged or degenerated intervertebral discs.
![picture of Veronica in front of pillars](/sites/alicecookhouse/files/styles/people_79_x_79_/public/2023-07/1_1.jpg?itok=TCENEbCv)
Veronica (she/her/hers) was born and raised in Los Teques, Venezuela.
![A person wearing a bow tie sits at a grand piano with its lid raised, and a violin resting on the piano.](/sites/alicecookhouse/files/styles/people_79_x_79_/public/2022-09/grf_rafael_torralvo.jpg?itok=Lann5z37)
Rafael Torralvo is a violinist and Ph.D. candidate in music and sound studies at Cornell University.